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Show MOVING PICTURE HOUSE COLLAPSES By International Xows "Service. PITTS BU KG,' Ph.. Bee. 20. .M ore than i'OO persons, many of them children, chil-dren, had a narrow escape from death or injury when the ceiling and one wall of the Gem theater, a moving picture house in the east end of Pittsburg, collapsed col-lapsed tonight. Kleven of . the auditors I were injured by the falling debris. I Panic broke out as the fear-stricken j crowd rushed for the exits in the darkness. dark-ness. Two were trampled under foot and several injured. The shrieks of children mingled with the crashing sou in Is of the falling brick, timber and plaster as the building suddenly collapsed col-lapsed at 9 o'clock tonight. There were no creaky sounds of warning. Police aud firemen who were immediately imme-diately summoned to the so cue applied themselves to the work of rescue. Most of the injured were children.; because the greater part of the wreck- 1 age fell uea r the front pa r: of the' thcr.ter, where the lii 1 le one usually go. i Rotten timbers in the eeiiine are believed be-lieved lo have been the cause of the ' collapse. An investigation will he made by the city building inspector, i |